Thurrs Jan 25

I'm currently sitting in the library at BR, I'll be leaving at about 11:30am

Wed Jan 24

Whew ... what a day. I'm sorry I forgot my laptop at home and this was the earliest I could set up this post.

The sample question for Part C of the exam would have to be something my students already have: it looks just like the Unit Test from the Short Story unit.

It's a reading we've probably never encountered before and students are to answer questions about that story.

Tues Jan 23

So here is a practise question from the exam ... this is part two, and is a ten mark question:

For one of the following sight passages, respond in proper paragraph form, and include the following: 

·      an insightful introductory sentence/thesis (including title and author)

• a series of points with supporting evidence and analysis touching on the following as relevant to your thesis:
• specific and larger context
• character(s) involved
• themes and character development
• literary devices
• thoughtful concluding statement

"If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so

many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old

Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It's funny.

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

Monday Jan 22

Exam review ... section A

Choose any three of the following and, in complete sentences, identify or define each term, clearly explaining its significance to the work in which it appears. If it is a literary device, you must apply it to one of the texts studied in class. Be sure to identify the title and author of the work.  Ensure that your choices cover the major texts.

Ward Stradlater

red hunting hat

blood oath

"Pookie Bear" River

Anthropophagi

Thursday and Friday Jan19

I was asked to post this on the course site. Here is the thing I was asked to post.

Ok that being done, on both Thursday and Friday we did the Task 2 and Task 3 presentations for the class. Friday I also spoke to every student about what they owed, if anything

We had a bit of time left over on each day, so I shared the exam review one day and offered some help for option sheets on the other.

Tuesday and Wed Jan 17

So these days we've been getting through a bunch of Task 3 Canadian Poet presentations.

I have to say "thank you" to my students for doing such a great job on educating their classmates on the lives of Canadian poets.

In any case, Wednesday we got this poem for homework:

and we listened to Patrick Stewart read this poem, too

Monday Jan 15

So ... we did some Task 2 poems, followed by some readings by the teacher.

We did read Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas. What. A Poem.

After that, we got this poem assigned to us for homework:

Fri Jan 12

So today ... we did a bit of Christian Bok. And we did read this chapter from Eunoia, his poetry book that was on the best seller list:

The poem for homework is this one, though:

and this one is just cool:

Thursday Jan 11

Right on. Things just keep moving forward.

Excellent.

Today we heard a number of presentations of poetry for Task 2 in the class. We also hear this version of the sonnet that starts Romeo and Juliet:

Awesome.

Then we got this part of the Bible to study as a poem for homework:

I really am not an artist, but that was my attempt at drawing the images of the poet.

Wed Jan 10

We passed into double digits in January today... almost done, almost done.

Today we looked at two different types of poetry: A limerick and a sonnet.

We did Edward Lear's limerick first:

Then we did Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130".

tomorrow we will talk about a Blazon, a type of poem that Shakespeare, among other writers, used a lot.

Tues Jan 9

So we took a listen to people reciting poetry for Task 2 this afternoon.

Then we took a look at these two poems:

I also posted the answers for the exam on the right, as well as examples for the Task 3 and the Task 4 for this unit just underneath.

Ok, Thanks!

Mon Jan 8

So ... welcome back and I hope you had a nice start to the new year.

We did a bit of a review of the unit, as we left off two weeks ago ... or more, depending on how you think about it.

We did take a peek at the terms we've looked at, too. I'll post a write up of the terms we studied on this post and in the helpful links on the right-hand side. We also read these two poems for the Task One for tomorrow: